4-round mock draft to start year has Cardinals not taking Nick Bosa

The Arizona Cardinals have the first overall pick in the 2019 draft and the first pick in every round thereafter. The next nearly four months of speculation will be fun.

To start the new year, Draft Wire managing editor Luke Easterling put together a four-round mock draft, and the Cardinals do not take Ohio State defensive end Nick Bosa.

At the top of the draft, Arizona takes Alabama defensive tackle Quinnen Williams.

I know, I know; putting anyone but Nick Bosa in the top spot is mock draft blasphemy. But the Cards already have one of the league’s best edge rushers in Chandler Jones. What they need is a dominant interior force like Williams.

He isn’t wrong. They have an aging Corey Peters and an inconsistent Robert Nkemdiche who recently had surgery to repair a torn ACL. They badly need a force on the inside.

In the second round, the Cardinals land Oklahoma tackle Cody Ford.

Ford is an underclassman who declared for the draft. He was a first-team All-Big 12 selection. Some project him to play guard at the next level.

In the third round, they land Stanford receiver JJ Arcega-Whiteside. The 6-3, 225-pounder caught 63 passes for 1,059 yards and 14 touchdowns for the Cardinal last season.

In Round 4, they take Temple cornerback Rock Ya-Sin. He is 6-2, 190 pounds and played one year at Temple after transferring from Presbyterian College.